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Jun 10 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
School strike week 199. Today, @Malala , @olya_mrd , activists from @Fridays4future & @Riseupmovt came together in Stockholm at our weekly strike, to share and learn about the link between girls’ education and climate action and to stand in solidarity with all Afghan girls. 1/7
A @MalalaFund report from last year estimates that if current trends continue, by 2025 climate change will be a contributing factor in preventing at least 12,5 million girls from completing their education each year. 2/7

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Research shows that countries that have invested in girls’ education have suffered far fewer losses from droughts and floods than countries with lower levels of girls’ education. 3/7
Young people are left to solve too many problems. To make all our calls for action even stronger, movements should together and remind leaders that so many of the issues young people are fighting for are interconnected. 4/7
Right now in Afghanistan, girls are not allowed to go to school because of the Taliban’s ban on girls’ secondary education. Many activists from Afghanistan were fighting alongside us for the future of our planet – and now for the right to education. 5/7
Afghanistan is amongst the lowest emitters of greenhouse gases per capita, but one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Since the Taliban takeover, young Afghan women and girls have lost their basic right to go to school … 6/7
... which means girls' futures are lost and so is their immense potential to innovate sustainable solutions.

#LetAfghanGirlsLearn #EducateGirlsForClimateJustice #RiseUpMovement
#FridaysForFuture #RöstFörRättvisa #PeopleNotProfit #ClimateStrike
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#COP26: GREENWASH ALERT!

The fossil fuel industry & banks caused are among the biggest climate villains. Now @Shell @BP & @StanChart are here in Glasgow trying to scale up offsetting & give polluters a free pass to keep polluting. Their plan could trash the 1,5°C goal.
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Aug 16, 2021
This basically sums up our current situation. The “code red” IPCC report came out a week ago. Since then not one politician has been held accountable. Not one politician has been asked how they are going to act in line with this. 1/4
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According to the new IPCC report, the carbon budget that gives us the best odds of staying below 1,5°C runs out in less than 5 and a half years at our current emissions rate. Maybe someone should ask the people in power how they plan to “solve” that?
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Jul 9, 2021
School strike week 151. This Friday we are in a tree plantation in Sápmi, Northern Europe. This used to be a forest, but after it was cut down forest companies have planted an invasive tree species that grows faster than the local ones. 1/7
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Apr 9, 2021
Of course I would love to attend the Glasgow #COP26
But not unless everyone can take part on the same terms. Right now many countries are vaccinating healthy young people, often at the expense of risk groups and front line workers (mainly from global south, as usual...).
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Inequality and climate injustice is already the heart of the climate crisis. If people can’t be vaccinated and travel to be represented equally that’s undemocratic and would worsen the problem.
Vaccine nationalism won’t solve the pandemic. Global problems need global solutions.->
But if current trends continue and the #cop26 has to be delayed that doesn’t mean we have to delay the urgent action required.
We don’t have to wait for conferences nor anyone or anything else to dramatically start reducing our emissions. Solidarity and action can start today.
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